Some recent media reports about the on going saga of the unjust, disgraceful and racist closure of the Mt Warning Summit track.... 'Heartbreaking': Tourist industry furious as Mount Warning remains closed due to Indigenous heritage concerns, 'costing industry $50 million' Lauren Forbes Skynews Calls are growing for a famous walking track that once welcomed 100,000 visitors per year to be reopened, after the site was closed during the pandemic and never reopened due to the area's cultural significance to Aboriginal Australians. Ngarakbal Elder Sturt Boyd, a custodian of the land, has challenged the claims of the WCG, labelling them false and saying he wants the track open to all Australians. “ It’s a disgrace, I’ll say it straight. That’s racism… that is racism and here’s why they put that piece up, Bundjalung put it up there, ” Elder Boyd said. Mr Boyd is the son of Ngarakwaal elder Marlene Boyd, daughter of the last Gulgan or keeper of Mount Warning, who long ad...
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It is right to Climb because we have the Right to climb. If you don’t exercise your rights you lose them. Don't let petty nanny state bureaucrats take them away.